How our perceptions of death are shaped by our lives, religions, societies and cultures.

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1928 Book of Common Prayer
Prayers for burial

A Box of Souls
NW Native American Viewpoint

Accidents - Death and Costs
Nat'l Resources Defense Council

Aids Interfaith Network
Non-profit org at The Body

alt.folklore.ghost-stories.faq
Frequently asked questions from Usenet newsgroup

American Folklore - Commonweath of Cultures
Library of Congress, American Folklore Center

Ander's Transhuman Page

Philosophy of humanity

Ask Father Mateo Archive
Catholic Information Network

A Time To Die
Mennonite Brethren Herald articles

Bardo of Death Studies
Readers share cultural comments

Being with Dying
Joan Halifax: Contemplative approaches (text)

Bereavement Guide
Congregation Shaarey Zedek [Judaism]

Catholic Prayers
Extensive collection including at death

Christian Care Resources

For pastors and Christian counselors

Comment on Parashat ha-Shavua
Perspective from Rabbi Ismar Schorsch

Conversation with Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti and death

Cremation Ceremony in Bali
Describes 'ngaben' procession

Culture...Death...Literature
Project on interaction of culture, death and literature

Day of the Dead
Dia de los Muertos
Spanish culture and death

Death and Burial in Islamic Societies
Paper by Said Ennahid

Death and Dying
Hinduism Today International

Death
Synonyms from Roget's Thesaurus

Death and Dying in Contemporary Neo-Paganism

Mary Ann Clark's paper for Rice University course

Death and Tibetan Buddhism
Text: Book Reference List

Death from the point of view of Sikh religion

Article in the June 1995 "The Weaver"

Death, The Last Great Tax Shelter
UMASS Spring newsletter "Related Matters"

Demography/Population Studies [CERN/ANU]

Census and datasets

Development on Church Teaching on Prolonging Life
Kevin O'Rourke, O.P. [Theology Library and Studio]

Dharma Talk - Unmasking Ourselves

Tibetan Buddhist from the Dzogchen Foundation

Does Secular Humanism Equip Us to Deal with Death?

David Noelle article from Secular Humanistic Bulletin

Dying to This Life

From Alex Lessin, Ph.D. paths to self discovery

Electric Mystic's Guide to the Internet

Text from Michael Strangelove, Univ of Ottawa

Electronic Books - Death/Dying
BuddhaNet extracts from Buddhist books

End of Life Decisions
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

End or Beginning?
Youths for Christ, Bible study idea

Exit and Entrances
Western and Shamanic Constructions of Death

Funeral/Cremation Rites
Royal Princess in Thailand

Grief and Death
Crossroads Ministry Centre (Christian)

Greek Mythology
Underworld and Tartarus

Human Understood Reincarnation

Miracle Network - Message from Vulcan

Husband Visiting from Dead
Rusyn folk story ,winter 1987

Images from the AfterLife
Egyptian priestess reconstructed

Immigrants Views on Death - LatinoLink

Seth Mydans from the N.Y. Times News Service

Improving Western Understanding of Death

Social Inventions Journal 1993

Insights Into the AfterLife
Published by Women's Federation for World Peace

International Jewish Burial Society

Honoring the dead in accordance with Halacha

Interview with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - On Death and Dying

By Daniel Redwood, writer and chiropracter

Islamic View

From Sedki Riad, Virginia Tech.

Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death

Michael Kearl's excellent stroll through sociology and death

"Last Rites"
Article by Lynda Dee, Baltimore Alternative 4/96

Life After Death/Rebirth
Ageless Wisdom Teachings, Benjamin Creme

Men, Women and Lamentation
Greek use of lamentation 750-400 B.C.E.
by Stanley Whittaker

Model of Death Anxiety
Integrative, comprehensive model of death anxiety

New Jerusalem - Life After Death
By the Rev. Peter M. Buss of the New Church

On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life
Encyclical Letter - John Paul II

On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing
Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 350 BC

Organ Donation and Transplantation
Public's attitude from TransWeb

Prayer Corner
The Yavits share prayers to soothe the soul

Prayers for the Dying
Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers

Preparing for Death and Helping the Dying
Kadampa Center, Tibetan Buddhism

Reincarnation - The Way of Soul Evolution
From SpirtWeb.org, reincarnation, karma

Resource on Death and Dying
United Church of Christ

Rites of Passage - Our Fathers Die
Bert H. Hoff for M.E.N. Magazine

Rroma Death Rituals and Customs
Rromani people are sometimes known as gypsies

Shona Religion Beliefs

Solomon Murungu, Zimbabwean

Society for Venturism

The culture of cryonics

Sociology of Death syllabus
At William Paterson College, Wayne NJ

Sophocles Sayings
Greek gnomic sayings from 496-406 BC

Spiritual Frontier
Focus on Swedenborg

Spiritual Support at the End of Life
Alive and Kicking Newsletter HIV/AIDS

Teachings on Karma
Sogyal Rinpoche from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Thanatos' Home Page

Greek incarnation of death

The Face of Death-Grim Reaper or Rite of Passage?
Editor, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

The Model of Stress: the Bereavement reaction
By Paula Clayton MD

The Will to Live
Feminists for Life of America

Tragic History of the "Omer" Season

Mourning period from Passover until La"g ba'omer

Tyburn Tree
Public Execution in Early Modern England

Virtual Mass(es)
Java required, post-modern virtual attitude

Voudon and Death

Religious system formed in Haiti

Women and Death - 108 Contemporary American Poets
Anthology of female poets on death

Writing the Last Chapter Well
Good News Online, Salvation Army USA East

Zulu History
South African society